Charleston Distance Run 15 Miler Relay RR w/Pics

Happy Saturday Loopy Loopsters! It seems like forever since I've had a race report! Ttoday was the Charleston Distance Run 15 Miler. I had planned to run it before I found out I had to have a hysterectomy in June, and I didn't think I would get to participate at all this year. Then a couple of weeks ago, sfschas asked me if I would be interested in running the relay. Hmmm... it was something we'd both never done and I was definitely interested. Well, let me tell you, talk about fun....

We got to Laidley Field about 7 this morning and snapped a few pics:

This is me and my running buddy L. She's a member of the "Breakfast Club" I run the streets of Charleston with through the week.

Hubby was also there and ready to tackle the 5K.

Here's our relay team! "Blood, Sweat and Beers". And YES, I AM a midget. I grew up in a circus and everything (Well, not a REAL circus hehe). The team consisted of me, our friend A, and sfschas. A was starting us out by running the first 3 miles, sfschas was running the 5 hellish hill miles, and I was doing the last 7 miles on the flats. So, after telling A goodbye as he headed to the start, sfschas and I did a jog to the Southside Bridge where we would be making the relay switches. The waiting wasn't bad at all. It seemed like in no time A was done and sfschas was taking off for the hills. I was glad he was wearing his construction cone shirt cause he was so easy to see. As I watched him flying down his last hill to the bridge, I had plenty of time to get my Garmin ready hehe.

I didn't know how I was going to run today, and really didn't have a goal. I haven't been doing a lot of fast running since my surgery, and I also started the Whole30 diet about 20 days ago. Luckily, I'm over the hump with the diet and the race went better than I'd expected. My splits went down like this: 8:29, 8:37, 8:44, 8:45, 8:48, 9:07 and 8:46. My leg came in at about 1:01:40-some, and our teams total time for the 15 miles was 2:00:45. I don't have our official time. I was really pleased with how it went though, and the guys ran super fast!!

Here I am with my big finish....

Here we are sporting our medals and glad to be done. That's NicNac in the maroon shirt, who some of you met at Shamrock. And then, just like they say on the commercial... BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!"

Surprise, surprise! We got 3rd place in the Co-ed Relay Team!! OSOM!!!

Hubby didn't do too shabby either. He won 2nd in his age group in the 5K! I think his time was 22:50-something. Don't have his official time either.

So it was great to get back out there! My focus for August has been getting my endurance back, and September's focus will be speed work. Hopefully I'll be in good shape for Fall racing.

Why am I not suprised that a running rock star like you would come back and pick up hardware right away! Great to see you back out there. Watch out fall races......the runningchick is coming after you! Great job.

Why am I not suprised that a running rock star like you would come back and pick up hardware right away! Great to see you back out there. Watch out fall races......the runningchick is coming after you! Great job.

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